R.I.P J.D.
Not much to say here. Speculation aside, I really hope I’ll someday have the chance to read some of the unpublished writing he undoubtedly pounded out for the past 45 years.
My cousin Lee tells a great story of seeing Salinger on a train between New York and Amherst, and another of a girl who loathed the author.
The Economist’s Democracy In America blog posted Holden’s State of the Union, a must read.
R.I.P. Jerome David Salinger